BRCA2

(redirected from breast cancer susceptibility protein BRCA2)

BRCA2

symbol for a breast cancer gene with activity similar to that of BRCA1.

BRCA2

A gene on chromosome 13q12.3 that encodes a protein which, like BRCA1, is involved in maintenance of genome stability, especially the homologous recombination pathway for double-stranded DNA repair; like BRCA1, it carries a marked increase in the lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

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